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RE: [TR] TR3A Door Handles

To: "'Triumph List'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [TR] TR3A Door Handles
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:20:25 -0700
> I see so many nicely restored TR3s where the handles are 
> pointing up.  I think there is a stop that with wear the 
> mechanism can slip past.

Not just wear ... many people pull up on the handles to open the doors, and
the stop will bend (at least on pre-60K cars, maybe later ones were
different).  

I'm guessing that many of those cars with the handles pointing up were
restored correctly, but the stop has been bent since then.

Randall


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